HeLa. Reconstructing an Immortal Bio
Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer in 1951 at 31, but a cell line from her tissues is still alive and reproducing for scientific purposes. Her dramatic biography and her fundamental (although unwitting) contribution to the development of scientific knowledge went unnoticed until Rebecca Skloot&...
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Language: | English |
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University of Bologna – Dipartimento di Filosofia e Comunicazione
2013-01-01
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Series: | Tecnoscienza |
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Online Access: | https://tecnoscienza.unibo.it/article/view/17059 |